Eve's ult needed the nerf bat. I turned around far too many games with Eve just by hitting level 11. It was silly powerful.

And now it is reduced to total crap. Eve now has to initiate with it, which means she gets blown up and dies automatically. Sorry but the nerf to her ult is crap and the increase in mana to her poke is just as bad. If they where planning on forcing her to now initiate, they needed to buff her health and defenses.

Well, no, I was initiating with it already. Massive slow + massive damage on most of the enemy team + a big shield on Eve to buffer her rush toward the nearest squishy carry? Yes please!

It's the 150 range reduction that it badly needed. That thing was an unforgiving nuke you could drop on an entire enemy team at pretty dang long range and, since Eve is one of the fastest things in the game combined with her ult slowing all those juicy targets, it meant she could basically kill anything she wanted before the enemy even had a chance to see her coming.

You might have been using her ult as more of an execute, and that's fine, but it worked extremely well for initiating teamfights before and still will, just requiring her to risk being spotted out of stealth to hit multiple targets now whereas there was no such risk before. I'm fine with that. Eve has plenty of other tools to chase someone down for a kill; using her ult for that purpose was a waste even if it was effective when it could have a much bigger impact used to initiate a teamfight that will then be dramatically in her team's favor.

Welcome to the world of Leona, Amumu, Malphite, Maokai... If you initiate and the others don't follow, you are always fucked up. Only very few champions can initiate and be fine with this, Like Gragas, who scatters the enemy team, or Blitz with his grab. But then again Blitz can pretty easily fuck his whole team with a single grab.

Kayle skin isn't bad, at least it is much better than Varus's skin. But still, bucks for nothing. Next time they'll bring us something like Batter Trundle and Geisha Karma. Or Heavens forbid, another Teemo skin.

Oh, there is? Seems I've already started to guess what is in Riot's heads. Honestly, I've never really bothered to check Trundle's skins. I really struggle to figure out, what kind of team composition can benefit from him. Or Karma. Or Nasus. Or Heimerdinger. Guess whose skins I also haven't checked. Although the stargate skin of Nasus is kind of cool, I once saw it in action.

As for what composition benefits from their use, they fit into most of the same roles as other tanky dps junglers/protective supports, respectively. They just don't fulfill those roles as well as newer champions. Karma's actually pretty great, but she doesn't have a fight-deciding ult like Sona or Zyra or Nami. She's sorta like what Lulu would be if she didn't have her ultimate. Trundle can get remarkably tanky at almost no cost just by using his ult on the right target, but he lacks the tools to be as threatening as Kha'zix or Cho'gath or Riven or Darius or etc. etc.

It's not really that they don't fit into the meta. They're just outclassed.

Pretty much the same, Shjade, for whatever you want, there is always a better choice. Not even always a newer choice. Karma may be actually able to fit in the new 3v3, since she is more useful when supporting melee rather than ranged, but I dislike the new TT too much to care. She also can't compete with other supports that lack game-changing ulties, like Taric or Alistar.

Anivia, Karthus, Katharina and Twisted Fate are as old as Heimerdinger and still radically more useful than him.

Trundle's most attractive quality for me, apart from just being tanky is the remarkable reduction of crowd control effects on him. About the same as Irelia. But both she and Olaf in his ulti are way more useful for reaching and crunching squishies.

I would argue against a champion like Katarina being counted as 'old'. Sure she was one of the originals... But she got a recently significant change to her skills for the most part, including a completely new skill that replaced one of her old ones.